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Micah McCurdy
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Math, hockey, viz, apocrypha
FYI: If you have a fancy subscription to HockeyViz, you can go to hockeyviz.com/tidesSmoothed or hockeyviz.com/tides to get an overview of all the night's games. There aren't any links to these pages anywhere because I made them for me but you can check 'em out too.
December 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Kelly's (@hinx.bsky.social) little niece was diagnosed with leukemia last week. It would mean the world if this community can rally together and help her family.

Please share and donate if you can.

gofundme.com/f/ebbpy-support-brielles-fight-against-leukemia
Donate to Support Brielle’s Fight Against Leukemia, organized by Bill Lubeck
My name is Bill Lubeck, and recently my sweet, and energetic 5 year old niece Bri… Bill Lubeck needs your support for Support Brielle’s Fight Against Leukemia
gofundme.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
My continuing #hockeyfightsdv pledge is 5% of all HockeyViz subscriptions to bryonyhouse.ca. The total for November and December is $889.63.
December 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Tiny site update: I put an all-situations finishing/goaltending chart in the Shot Danger section.
December 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Chad Hagen's nonsensical infographics
more: chadhagen.com/nonsensical-...
December 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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oooh
December 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
You got it
December 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I'm not sure that I buy the idea that Vancouver is being hit especially hard by injuries. There are plenty, to be sure, but not so many among important players.
December 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Yesterday's games:
December 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Here’s the full list of chapters for my debut book, Black Aces, which comes out Feb. 3, 2026.

You can pre-order the book wherever you can get books, including on the Triumph Books website. @triumphbooks.bsky.social

www.triumphbooks.com/black-aces-p...
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Funny you should ask: I saw that and thought "that can't be right, I must have made some sort of measurement mistake somewhere" so I went to looking into some things.
One of the funnier career peaks in recent years. What on earth was he doing in 20-21
Happy retirement to Craig Smith. He was the only active Craig in the league.
December 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Feels strange to see people criticizing Rick Tocchet about giving some minutes to his fourth line (as referenced here, say: www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/nhl/philadel...) when he already uses his fourth line very sparingly.
December 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Happy retirement to Craig Smith. He was the only active Craig in the league.
December 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Automation is concerned with the edges of things, with interfaces and input and output flows. Many things which appear the same to humans by virtue of having very similar centres can have very different edges.
i can never find a good way to phrase this, but: the way that every time a piece of work is automated, the nature of that work is transformed, and parts of it slip into or out of the defined nature of that work
December 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
My city is so far into the future that we have octagonal snowflakes. My civic pride could not be higher.
Service update (Dec. 8, 7 a.m.) Surfaces are snow covered. Crews are active in all areas. Prepare for winter driving conditions and allow extra time to arrive at your destination. Travel safely. Details: halifax.ca/snow.
December 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Yesterday's games.

Chicago went to Anaheim but it would be over-generous to say that they showed up.
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
It's not just that Colorado have decided to go to the moon. It's also striking how the other teams have spread out so much less than you'd expect.
Still cleaning up the logo placements/transparency but this was too funny not to share
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Yesterday's games:
December 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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ICYMI: you can get 15% off your order with code SQUEAKY right now! profits are going toward getting my sweet senior kitty a much-needed CT scan 💜
random sampling of my products, all crocheted by hand or knitted with a circular machine. they're great for gifting!

littlesmokescrafts.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Alright then
December 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
You might think that this would dissaude me from making a bit of brightly-coloured nonsense, but you'd be wrong.
December 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Fun job at the NFL: job-boards.greenhouse.io/nflcareers/j...

This part stood out to me especially:
December 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
my esl teacher says its important for me to practice using the word 'entire'
The entire pacific division collectively has 63 regulation wins and 86 regulation losses. An entire division kept afloat from gimmick post-regulation points. Only one team has a winning regulation record.
December 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The entire pacific division collectively has 63 regulation wins and 86 regulation losses. An entire division kept afloat from gimmick post-regulation points. Only one team has a winning regulation record.
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Yesterday's games:
December 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM